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 Dear
Friends,
Salamualikum
Welcome to the FAAA website. This website is still in
development but it promises to provide an interactive forum
for the member organizations of the FAAA, and all who
support the vision of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and the Aligarh
Tehreek. In this time of great change and challenge, I
believe here lays an opportunity to cherish our heritage of
good traditions from our alma mater and develop new
resources for addressing the challenge of the future.
It is a good thing to be critical of any shortcoming that we
do not expect in an organization of the FAAA’s potential and
we welcome your critique as a sign of your interest in
seeing the FAAA grow in a good direction. However I will
also request you to provide your suggestion to improve that
problem and how you will contribute in addressing that
issue.
The FAAA has over the past one year added new members, and
organized nationally run International Mushaira, and
developed relationship with organizations that work in
projects that are enthusiastically encouraged by the mission
of FAAA. For example, the Aligarh Education Endowment Fund,
under Dr. Shaheer Khan and Mr. Umar Farooq has been invited
to join the FAAA as an autonomous organization that has a
mission of supporting educational projects in India at
various levels. We are also in the process of developing an
online course for learning Urdu, through the FAAA website to
provide our youth an opportunity to learn their mother
tongue and get familiar with their cultural richness and
heritage. In addition we have started an initiative to
develop vocational training in Uttar Pradesh for poor women
so that they may become financially independent and
successful.
Our various FAAA member organizations have a number of
programs promoting education in India and also helping
students from the AMU for greater opportunities in education
and academic training by funding school projects for girls
education, mentorship for graduate students, and providing
fellowships on merit and need basis. We also try to help
newly arriving students and faculty from AMU to the USA, and
make this transition easier with the help of FAAA community
in the USA.
Finally the FAAA annual convention is a great source of
happiness to meet old friends and make new ties and enjoy
the hospitality of the host association. I strongly urge you
to visit Washington and attend the 10th Annual Convention of
the FAAA, with family and friends and make this successful
by your enthusiastic and positive support.
I am looking forward to welcome you with the host, incoming
President Dr. Fazal Khan in Washington. I specially thank
our former President Mr. Ali Rizvi in making this new
website a reality. We will continue to improve this site
with your suggestions and add more links and information
that you may enjoy. The work is still in progress, but it is
a start in the right direction.
With best wishes and Salams
Fazal Khan ,
President FAAA 2011-2012 |
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